According to Walter Isaacson’s new biography “Elon Musk”, as early as 2015, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) nearly died several times due to the automatic driving assistance technology Autopilot during a test drive, causing him to become furious with the engineers.
In the chapter on self-driving assistance technology in this biography, the author reveals an incident that Musk personally experienced: There was a curve on Interstate 405 that Autopilot could not recognize because the lane lines on the road had faded, resulting in The car swerved and “nearly hit” oncoming traffic.
Whenever this happened, Musk would storm into Tesla’s offices angrily and rage at his engineers, whom he repeatedly asked to improve the program: “Do something to program this thing properly.”
Elon Musk insisted that Tesla’s cars only need to use optical sensors, just like humans driving mainly with their eyes. He rejects other technologies, such as LiDAR, as too expensive and unnecessary. The biography says his engineers thought lidar was the best option for improving safety, but they couldn’t convince Musk to change his mind.
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